Noun: sēklis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | sēklis |
| Accusative | sēkli |
| Genitive | sēkļa |
| Dative | sēklim |
| Instrumental | sēkli |
| Locative | sēklī |
| Vocative | sēkli |
Plural
| Nominative | sēkļi |
| Accusative | sēkļus |
| Genitive | sēkļu |
| Dative | sēkļiem |
| Instrumental | sēkļiem |
| Locative | sēkļos |
| Vocative | sēkļi |
Sample Sentences
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smilšu sēklis (sandbank)
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akmeņains sēklis (rocky shoals)
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koraļļu sēklis (coral cay)
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kontinenta sēklis (continental shelf)
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zvejot sēkļos (to fish in a shallow)
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uzbraukt sēklim, uz sēkļa (to run aground (lit. on(to) a shallow))
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būt uz sēkļa (to be in a difficult situation (lit. to be on a shallow, to be stranded, shipwrecked))
Nouns inflected like sēklis
seklis,
skaitlis,
vēdeklis,
ķeblis,
vēceklis,
krauklis,
sēklis,
bacilis,
skrimslis,
pedālis,
zaglis,
numerālis,
uzgalis,
portugālis,
spieģelis,
paeglis,
kabatzaglis,
gaismeklis,
cīrulis,
sabulis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Derived, with vowel lengthening, from *sekt, a parallel form of dialectal verb sikt, standard sīkt (“to decrease (water, river)”) (q.v.), whence also sekls (“shallow”) (q.v.). The additional l follows the pattern of verb degt (“to burn (intr.)”), noun deglis (“wick, burner, detonating fuse”), dialectal dēglis.
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